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Alabama takes choice from poor women but so does Australia
When I first meet Elizabeth she’s waiting nervously outside West Alabama Women’s centre in Tuscaloosa – one of three abortions clinics in the whole state, meant to service a population of 2.4…
- Laura Murphy Oates
- The Sydney Morning Herald
Elizabeth is a 32-year-old waitress who is nine weeks pregnant.
When she found out she was pregnant five weeks ago she was terrified – she thought she may be forced to keep her child.
Alabama has passed a near-total ban on abortion – the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States.
However, as Elizabeth later realised, the laws are not yet in effect (and may…
“It was an awful lot of…